“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

In all probability you will become aware of me first either in a dream projection or in a session. The book you are reading will help you both. It can hardly cover very many points, but it is generally legitimate as far as it goes.

If you call on me to help you in a dream projection, I will help you, though you may or may not remember the dream projection or my help. Joseph will find himself more likely to remember simple projections that do not involve any featured levitation. These will be the easiest for you, Joseph, to recall.

You should try willing yourself into another room. When you awaken in the middle of the night, try such an experiment. Your projections do involve you in extensive levitations from the dream state, but you recall only a few. The most extensive traveling is done in nightly excursions, but it is easiest to remember those dream projections that occur during naps in the day, simply because the waking consciousness is more alert.

If possible, you should make an effort to conquer the fear involved with levitations, for the fear prevents you from recalling such experiences. Projections of a kind do also occur while the normal waking consciousness is up and about its normal chores. These are rarely remembered: that is, the waking consciousness retains no memory of them.

You often travel together in projections, and you should be able to recall these in time.

Now, your experience involved a projection, though you were unconscious when separation occurred.

The woman was quite real, but existed in another plane of activity. She was a survival personality in your terms. You projected to her system of reality and the environment was pseudophysical, the projection of her own thoughts made real in objective terms within the system.

You had one brief experience before this one but did not remember, where you walked along the banks of a misty river landscape. You had several other later projections that same evening that you did not recall.

As I mentioned earlier, you do often accompany each other in your projections and I often am with you also. I give you direct experience during your projections to implement our sessions. These lessons remain a part of your total personality, though they have not been remembered in your terms thus far.

Some of your environment under such conditions and at certain stages does represent what many occultists call thought-forms. In one legitimate projection of yours, Joseph, you formed a vehicle, I believe. Perhaps it was a plane, so that you would not be frightened. The flying was a fact, you see, the plane was a thought-form.

Some of the people in your dreams will be actual people you know who are also projecting. Others will be survival personalities. In some cases according to your own level of projection, some will be going about their normal lives within other planes or systems. They may or may not perceive you.

When dream elements combine to cloud a projection, this is the work of a certain level of consciousness, trying to interpret the strange conditions. This usually occurs at certain levels where consciousness is not yet completely free of the physical body. Some of the dream elements will be thought-forms.

Now, you form the physical universe individually and yet find it cohesive. There are similarities upon which you all agree, of environment and conditions. The same can be said of all systems into which you may project. But you must learn which portions of the environment are held by all, generally speaking, and which are not. You must learn the new root assumptions in other words. This is precisely what you are doing in your projections.

You may take your break and I shall continue. If you keep your mind on me when you give your projection suggestions, it will be easier for you to remember our encounters.

I have told you that some portion of our sessions involves projection. The degree varies from session to session. There will be a time when Ruburt will project out of his body during sessions and remember what transpires while I speak through his body. When projections occur now he is not consciously aware of them. These things are not forced, you see. On other occasions we meet, so to speak. I will go into this perhaps soon, for there are the similarities here and significances, involving states of consciousness used by both Ruburt and myself, and the type of projection achieved. These have bearing on the clearness or undistorted nature of the material. Less satisfactory projections cause distortions, you see, that are characteristic features of this state of consciousness at that time.